Best Justice Proverbs
4090 Justice quotes by 2120 unique authors
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It is a very grave matter to be forced to imitate a people for whom you know-which is the price of your performance and survival-you…
— James A. Baldwin
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What passes for identity in America is a series of myths about one's heroic ancestors. It's astounding to me, for example, that so many people…
— James A. Baldwin
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If one cannot risk oneself, then one is simply incapable of giving. And, after all, one can give freedom only be setting someone free.
— James A. Baldwin
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To be born in a free society and not to be born free is to be born into a lie. To be told by co-citizens…
— James A. Baldwin
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The miracle is that some have stepped out of the rags of the Republic's definition to assume the great burden and glory of their humanity…
— James A. Baldwin
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The real victim of bigotry is the white man who hides his weakness under his myth of superiority.
— James A. Baldwin
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Hatred is self-punishment.
— Hosea Ballou
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Those who commit injustice bear the greatest burden.
— Hosea Ballou
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Revolution begins with the self, in the self.
— Toni Cade Bambara
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The dream is real, my friends. The failure to make it work is the unreality.
— Toni Cade Bambara
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Black! Black! Black! I am proud of being a Negro. Nor have I ever tried to beg tolerance from anyone. Superiority is not proved by…
— Unknown Author
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The absurd man is he who never changes.
— Unknown Author
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When women act like women, they are accused of being inferior. When women act like human beings, they are accused of behaving like men.
— Simone de Beauvoir
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When we abolish the slavery of half of humanity, together with the whole system of hypocrisy it implies, then the "division" of humanity will reveal…
— Simone de Beauvoir
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Woman is shut up in a kitchen or in a boudoir, and astonishment is expressed that her horizon is limited. Her wings are clipped, and…
— Simone de Beauvoir
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A man would never get the notion of writing a book on the peculiar situation of the human male.
— Simone de Beauvoir
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I am a man who perceives life in a certain way, a man who rejects things that defecate on humankind, who rejects anything that will…
— Harry Belafonte
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Only reason can convince us of those three fundamental truths without a recognition of which there can be no effective liberty: that what we believe…
— Clive Bell
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What does the Negro want? His answer is very simple. He wants only what all other Americans want. He wants opportunity to make real what…
— Mary McLeod Bethune
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The myth of integration as propounded under the banner of the liberal ideology must be cracked because it makes people believe that something is being…
— Steven Biko
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Without a visual identity, we have no community, no support network, no movement. Making ourselves visible is a political act, making ourselves visible is a…
— Unknown Author
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No higher duty, or more solemn responsibility, rests upon this Court than that of translating into living law and maintaining this constitutional shield deliberately planned…
— Hugo Black
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Out of the Indian approach to life there came a great freedom, an intense and absorbing respect for life, enriching faith in a Supreme Power,…
— Black Elk
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Hear me, four quarters of the world-a relative I am! Give me the strength to walk the soft earth, a relative to all that is!…
— Black Elk
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I did not know then how much was ended. When I look back now from this high hill of my old age, I can still…
— Black Elk
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